Stability for Take-Away Games
Simon Rubinstein-Salzedo
Euler Circle
Palo Alto, CA 94306
USA
Sherry Sarkar
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332
USA
Abstract:
In this paper, we study a family of take-away games called α-TAG,
parametrized by a real number α ≥ 1.
We show that for any given α,
there is a half-open interval Iα
containing α such that the set of
losing positions for α-TAG is the same as the set of losing positions
for β-TAG if and only if β ∈ Iα.
We then end with some results and
conjectures on the nature of these intervals.
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(Concerned with sequences
A002182
A004394
A040047
A323256
A323257.)
Received May 8 2019; revised versions received September 25 2019; October 2 2019.
Published in Journal of Integer Sequences,
January 1 2020.
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